​2014 INESC - MAESTRA. ICT-2013-612944The need for machine learning and data mining is ever growing due to the increased pervasiveness of data analysis tasks in almost every area of life, including business, science and technology. Not only is the pervasiveness of data analysis tasks increasing, but so is their complexity. The central topic of active research is in areas such as structured-output prediction, mining data streams, semi-supervised learning, and mining network data.